512 pp. May 1996
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-1664-3, $29.00
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Pacific
Melanesia
anthropology
economics |
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Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia
by Edvard Hviding
Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 14
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH
“This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes’s Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources.” —American Anthropologist
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